My Billionaire Ex-Husband Chase Me Back - Chapter 254

Chapter 254: Mother!?
“Leo? Did you hear me?”

“Huh!? Sorry?” Leo slightly raises his brow, confused.

“How about lunch?”

“Ah, Yes…yes… My secretary has prepared it. We can go straight upstairs!” Leo responds while smiling at her.

“Alright, shall we go upstairs?”

“Terrific! Let’s go,” Stefan said excitedly, but later, he yawned. “Ugh! I think I’m still jet-lagged…I feel like I want to sleep…”

“I’m sorry, Stefan, but you can’t sleep now! There are so many things we need to discuss. Besides, I still miss hearing about your life lately, my ‘lil bro,” Bella said, pulling him to walk faster.

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Their lunch went by so fast.

After lunch, Bella, Stefan, and Leo continued the discussion in the living room. They discussed the biggest priorities they would investigate.

Their current focus was on resolving Stellar Entertainment’s matter related to that damn woman, Laura Kiels.

Apart from that, Bella also assigned Stefan to start her plan to destroy the Donovan Group. She would make factual but negative news about the company to lower its stock market price and force all shareholders to sell their shares to her anonymous company at a considerably lower price.

This time, Bella would no longer see her uncles and father as part of her family but as enemies. She would not allow them to hurt her anymore.

Even though she felt hurt for doing so, she had no choice. They had pressured her so much that she thought she was at a dead end where she could only fight to survive.

‘But how about Mother…!?’

The thought of her mother suddenly caused her heart to tremble, and a wave of emotions engulfed her. Unknowingly, her hands formed into tight fists as she attempted to suppress her anger.

As a mother, Bella could empathize with the pain her own mother went through to become Lucas Donovan’s wife. Her father was a narcissistic and manipulative man who never truly loved or cared about his wife. For her father, a wife was merely a woman who would bear a child, not a mutual partner.

Bella knows precisely how miserable her mother’s life is. Still, she also doesn’t understand why her mother never fought back when her father abused her!? Bella believed her mother blindly devoted her life only to her father.

‘Should I call her?’ This question consistently appears in Bella’s mind, especially when her brother Henry tells her their mother misses her.

However, Bella never dared to dial her mother’s cell phone number.

“Sister Bella, for Donovan Group, it is an easy task for me. I already collected many things about that company when you asked me to eye your scum brother, Henry…” Stefan casually said, but enough to make Bella pull out of her thoughts.

She looks at him, smiles, and gives him a thumbs-up, praising him for his efficiency.

“When do you want me to do this?” Stefan asked.

“You can start when you are ready. The faster, the better. I must settle my family matters before I begin dealing with my husband’s family.” Bella said calmly but smiled faintly when she saw Stefan and Leo’s faces turn stiff. “Why do you guys look scared?”

“Damn, Bella! You still have not yet settled with Boss Tristan’s parents?” Leo, who knows how bad Bella’s relationship with her in-law is, starts worrying about her. He didn’t want this girl to suffer again to enter the Sinclair family.

“Wait… Wait…” Stefan chimed in. His brow wrinkled slightly as he looked at Bella. “I am genuinely curious about this and wanted to ask you since you seem to have confirmed that you have accepted your husband’s wish to come back to you…”

Bella maintains her calmness, even though she feels worried about Stefan’s question. “Okay. I have considered you as family, as my little brother. So, I’ll let you know. What do you want to know?” she asked.

“Why did you let him return to you again, sis? Jack told me that your husband divorced you and that he didn’t love you and was one hell of a womanizer!”

Bella almost choked to hear his words.

“Yes, that was what everyone knew about Tristan. But Tristan, my husband, is not like that at all. From the last few months of being close and speaking heart-to-heart with him, I know he loves me and has never been a womanizer. By the way, what exactly did Jack say to you?” She narrowed her eyes on Stefan.

“Are you sure he loves you, sis?” Stefan ignored Bella’s words and continued to doubt her. “Sis, Mr. Tristan Sinclair is incredibly handsome, even in the eyes of men! And he is also super rich! Don’t you think you might be tempted by those traits and not by his actual feelings for you?”

Bella, “…”

Leo almost laughed hearing this naïve and innocent Stefan’s words.

“Tsk! Stefan…why don’t you stop being a wise-ass kid! Tristan Sinclair is madly in love with Boss Bella. I saw it with my eyes and heard it with my own ears,” Leo responds to Stefan’s silly question. He has already met Tristan a few times, and how Tristan looks and speaks at Bella clearly shows his profound love and admiration for her.

“Oh, he better be! Because…if this time he tries to ruin my sister’s life again, I vow I will whack Tristan Sinclair’s head!”

Leo, “…”

“Are you sure you can beat Tristan Sinclair, kid? Have you seen him? He was so big and taller than you, kid… With only one flick from him, you already fly like a kite,” Leo chuckled as he saw how pale and thin Stefan was.

Stefan narrowed his eyes at Leo before his laugh echoed through the room.

“HA HA HA….” Stefan laughed a loud pretend laugh while holding his stomach, hearing Leo’s ridiculous words.

Leo, “…”

Bella also wore the same expression as Leo.

They both have a similar question: Why does Stefan suddenly laugh? Did something possess him!?

After his laugh subsided, Stefan’s friendly gaze slowly turned cold, staring at Leo. But only for a second, as his cold gaze turned warm when he turned to look at Bella, “Sis, did bro Leo know my last name?” he asked gently.